finder is a package that needs to work. Currently the finder database (finder-inf.el) is built statically at dump time, never updated when new packages are installed, and is put in a location that will definitely cause trouble with Mule XEmacsen and Non-Mule XEmacsen sharing the same package lisp. A simple method of fixing it would be along the following lines. lisp/finder-inf.el gets split into two files similar to how files-mule.el and files-nomule.el are. lisp/finder-inf.el would contain information about everything in the XEmacs core other than lisp/mule. lisp/finder-inf-mule.el would contain information about lisp in lisp/mule. Although these files contain lisp they are data files so it might make some sense to put them in etc/. I am open to either place. Each installed package hierarchy needs a finder-inf.el that is updated as packages are installed and removed. For consistency, its location should match where finder-inf*.el goes in the core. Adding two new functions finder-update-package-keywords (callable from package-ui.el) and finder-batch-update-package-keywords (callable from make) would seem to be enough. Questions, comments?